Oliver Mowat Quotes

#1. People used to play with toys.
Now the toys play with them.

Idries Shah

#2. You'll get everything society can give a man. You'll keep all the money. You'll take any fame or honor anyone might want to grant. You'll accept such gratitude as the tenants might feel. And I - I'll take what nobody can give a man, except himself. I will have built Cortlandt.
- Howard Roark

Ayn Rand

#3. If you find yourself stimulated in any way by your portfolio performance, then you are probably doing something very wrong. A superior portfolio strategy should be intrinsically boring.

William J. Bernstein

#4. Moses desired to see God; I do not desire to see God;He desires to see me

Bayazid Bastami

#5. Feeling bored is a childish attitude.
You wouldn't feel so if you don't rely
on somebody to change your feeling.

Toba Beta

#6. Your arrogance is rooted in stupidity.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#7. Consensus is invoked only in situations where the science is not solid enough.

Michael Crichton

#8. [On John Cleese:] He sometimes seems to swat at his own thoughts as if they were bees.

Penelope Gilliatt

#9. If you think the summer sun is too hot, just remember, at least you don't have to shovel it.

Bob Dylan

#10. There have been so many great tournaments that I've been privileged to see, and people paid me to go watch, that I'm awfully grateful for it.

Dan Jenkins

#11. And the eyes are the lamp of the body.

Karen Kingsbury

#12. As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.

Jack Henry Abbott